Shingle Roof Replacement in High Springs, FL, May 2025

What you are looking at

The first photo looks up one of the main hip slopes under a gray sky. Two brown hood vents with rounded tops and a slim brown pipe vent sit out in the field of shingles, and a flat brown vent sits just below the peak. On the right, the hip cap shingles curve down to meet a lower section of roof.

From the front yard the roofline steps along the house: a hip roof over the left wing, a second hip set farther back, then a gable with white trim over the entry and a bigger gable faced in stacked stone. Tall pines and thick woods fill the background.

Duration is an architectural shingle, built from two bonded layers so each course has thick and thin sections that cast small shadows. Up close the granules on this roof run from pale gray through tan to a deep cocoa brown. From the ground the mix settles into a soft gray-brown.

The roof has two kinds of vents. Three long, low off-ridge vents sit in a row just under the ridge, where warm attic air can escape along the top of the roof. Lower down, the rounded hood vents cover smaller openings, and a separate pipe vent rises through the shingles beside one of them. In Florida heat, moving hot air out of the attic helps limit heat build-up.

The valley photo shows two slopes meeting at an angle. Shingles from one slope stop at a clean, straight cut down the middle, laid over the courses that run through from the other side. This is called a closed-cut valley. Thick cap shingles climb the hip just beside it.

Photos Brehm took during the tear-off show the old roof stripped to the bare OSB deck, the layer of wood sheets the shingles are nailed into, and then synthetic underlayment rolled out over the deck ahead of the new shingles. The last photo looks down the back slope to an open lawn with sandy patches, a wood rail fence, shrubs and tall pines.